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9/11Galileo Galilei letter to Nicolas Peiresc, 1635 May 12
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Galileo Galilei letter to Nicolas Peiresc, 1635 May 12
- Publication date
- 1635
- Topics
- Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 -- Correspondence, Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, 1580-1637 -- Correspondence, Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642, Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, 1580-1637, Clocks and watches -- Early works to 1800, Science -- History, Technology -- History, History, Science, Technology
- Collection
- smithsonian
- Contributor
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Language
- Italian
- Item Size
- 11.2M
1 item (4 pages) ; 28 cm
Autograph letter in ink signed by Galileo to Nicolas Peiresc, written from his home in Arcetri, Italy and dated May 12th, 1635
Although Galileo's correspondent is unnamed in the letter, Peiresc has been identified as the recipient based on the exchange of multiple letters between the two from this period and the thread of their letters' contents. This letter was delivered to Peiresc in Lyons, France through the agency of Roberto Galilei, a distant relative of Galileo
Gift; Bern Dibner
Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner
A letter from Galileo: Galileo, the innovator, by Bern Dibner. A long-lost letter from Galileo to Peiresc on a magnetic clock, by Stillman Drake. Norwalk, CT : Burndy Library, 1967
digitized CHLDP 20141032
Autograph letter in ink signed by Galileo to Nicolas Peiresc, written from his home in Arcetri, Italy and dated May 12th, 1635
Although Galileo's correspondent is unnamed in the letter, Peiresc has been identified as the recipient based on the exchange of multiple letters between the two from this period and the thread of their letters' contents. This letter was delivered to Peiresc in Lyons, France through the agency of Roberto Galilei, a distant relative of Galileo
Gift; Bern Dibner
Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner
A letter from Galileo: Galileo, the innovator, by Bern Dibner. A long-lost letter from Galileo to Peiresc on a magnetic clock, by Stillman Drake. Norwalk, CT : Burndy Library, 1967
digitized CHLDP 20141032
- Addeddate
- 2014-08-18 06:39:15
- Associated-names
- Dibner, Bern, former owner, donor; Knight, Kenneth K., former owner; Peiresc, Nicolas Claude Fabri de, 1580-1637, correspondent; Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries); Burndy Library, former owner, donor
- Call number
- 39088003313590
- Call-number
- 39088003313590
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- 0
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- true
- Identifier
- Letter00Gali
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t2894002d
- Identifier-bib
- 39088003313590
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- Japanese
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- Pages
- 4
- Pdf_module_version
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- Possible copyright status
- Public domain. The Library considers that this work is no longer under copyright protection
- Ppi
- 450
- References
- Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Manuscripts of the Dibner collection, 58
- Year
- 1635
- Full catalog record
- MARCXML
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